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APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine

Committee News

2005 Eastern Division Meeting panel: "The 25th Anniversary of the Belmont Report"

Chair: Rosamond Rhodes (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)
Speakers: Tom Beauchamp (Georgetown), Ruth Macklin (Albert Einstein School of Medicine), Alex John London (Carnegie Mellon), Jodi Halpern (Berkeley), Frank Miller (NIH)

2006 Pacific Division Meeting panel: "Medicalization: Rhetoric and Value"

Chair: Mary Rorty (Stanford)
Speakers: Felicia Nimue Ackerman (Brown); John Hardwig (University of Tennessee); James Nelson (Michigan State)

2006 Central Division Meeting panel: "The Place of Compassion in Medical Education and Clinical Practice"

Chair: Lee Brown (Howard)
Speakers: Laura Ekstrom (William & Mary), Gordon Greene (University of Hawaii, Manoa), Ben Rich (University of California, Davis), Sandra Shapsay (Indiana), Howard Shapiro (Yale), Angelo Volandes (Harvard)

From Philosophy in the News:
02-04-2004 (New York Review of Books, 2/12/04)
Book Review: "Getting in Nature's Way"
Review of The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement by Sheila M. Rothman and David J. Rothman. Reviewed by Sherwin B. Nuland.

Committee Reports to the APA Board

• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000
• 1999
• 1998
• 1997
• 1996

APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine

• APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine

Statements (APA Board-Approved)

Survey Data and Reports

Resources Describing Programs in Bioethics and/or Philosophy and Medicine

www.gradschools.com/programs/bioethics.html
www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/academic.html
www.bioethics.net/resources/index.php?&cat=13&t=sub_pages
www.asbh.org/resources/links/academic.htm

Committee Resources